Society, and to his zeal and activity it is indebted for a 

 large portion of its early popularity, as it is to his libe- 

 rality for an extensive Collection of Birds and Insects, 

 besides numerous minor donations ; all of which are still 

 valuable, as many of them were at the time unique. In 

 Natural History, Mr. Vigors was the acknowledged head 

 of British Ornithologists, during the period that he at- 

 tended to scientific pursuits ; and though his views with 

 respect to classification are no longer participated in to 

 the same extent as formerly, yet they were developed with 

 such ingenuity, illustrated so pleasingly, and enforced 

 with so much power, as made them very popular at the 

 time. Some of his papers on this subject, inserted in the 

 Transactions of the Linnsean Society and in the Zoological 

 Journal, of which he was the principal editor, are models 

 of scientific composition. 



h. Honorary and Foreign Members. 



In these two classes no changes have occurred since the 

 last Anniversary. 



c. Corresponding Members, 



The number of Corresponding Members whose names 

 are retained on the Books of the Society is 140, of whom 

 7 are new Members elected since the last Anniversary. 

 The Council have only heard of two deaths among this 

 class of our Associates — that of Mr, James Prinsep, so 

 well known over Europe as Secretary of the Royal Asiatic 

 Society of Calcutta, and equally distinguished as a scien- 

 tific and numismatic scholar ; and that of Mr. Henry 

 Woods of Bath, a zealous naturalist, and at one time a 

 very regular attendant at the Scientific Meetings of the 

 Society j but there is reason to believe that the gross 

 number of Corresponding Members at present on the 

 List considerably overstates the actual amount, as from 

 their residence in distant countries it rarely happens that 

 we obtain information of the deaths which occur in this 

 useful class of our Associates. 



